"Good Sun Yuan, very good!" In the Bo Hall of the Yazhu of Rugao County, Lei Tai picked up the teacup with a calm face, and the good Longjing tea leaves on the front rain of a gun and a flag hanging upside down in the cup did not move at all.

But the two blushes under his cheekbones still did not subside, revealing the resentment in his heart: "The people in this county, no matter how slippery they are, have to tremble and behave in front of me. This person is not afraid of me, whether it is arrogant or crazy, he can make someone lose such a person in front of the county honor, but he is also a character. Perhaps, he is really a reader, you say? ”

As he spoke, he looked at his brother-in-law with a smile.

Everyone else knew, and Lei Tai was also annoyed in his heart, and the calmer he seemed on the surface.

Mao Chengyi thought about being afraid of this brother-in-law, and when he heard him ask, he immediately said: "How is it possible, this person surnamed Sun and my fellow villagers in the township, I can say that I watched him grow up." Who he was, how could he not know. is also a waste who is so pampered by her mother that she can't carry her shoulders and can't carry it, and she can't even do farm work. I don't have any skills, I don't have any skills, and I only know how to fool around with the dirty guys outside, and I don't make a difference. A while ago, he was seriously injured, and he lay in bed for half a month, almost dying. In my opinion, I guess I was beaten by the splashes outside. is such a talent, why should my brother-in-law take it to heart. ”

"Really?"

"Really." Mao Cheng nodded.

"Maybe ......" Lei Tai touched his chin: "Perhaps, Sun Yuan read a book when he was messing around, and he really let him pass the county exam and become a protégé of the county honor, we really can't do anything about him." ”

"It can't be." Mao Cheng shook his head and smiled flatteringly: "Brother-in-law, do you think, this is so easy to study?" If you enter the academy, the tuition fee for a year will be ten taels of silver, which is not something that ordinary people can afford. His grandson's family can't get two taels of silver in taxes, so what can they use to pay for tuition? And the reading test is such a thing, but it requires some eight-strand articles. Maybe Sun Yuan knew a few words when he was messing around, but he had to be taught by a teacher to make an article, but he couldn't learn it in three days or two days. If someone really taught him to compose, I should have known. In these years, it is a thing to boast about being able to read books and write articles. A gangster, if he has this ability, will he not be able to show off all day? ”

"There is some truth to that." Lei Tai nodded slightly: "However, since Sun Yuan has never studied, why did he sign up for the county exam, and Du Lisheng is still willing to be his guarantor, but it's strange?" ”

Mao Cheng: "The ghost only knows, but that Du Lisheng is a nerd, and it's not strange to do foolish things." Brother-in-law, don't bother with this, anyway, it will be the county exam in three days, and it will be announced in three days. When the time comes, if there is no thief on the list, we will just take the person. ”

Lei Tai put the teacup in his hand on the table and said slowly: "That's right, if he doesn't hit it at that time, he will send it to Xiuhuai River!" The Huai River bursts every year, and it is not a matter of dying a handful of people. ”

At this time, the two lumps under his cheekbones were even more rosy, and they were so red that they seemed to drip blood.

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Actually, from the bottom of his heart, Sun Yuan didn't want to make an enemy like Lei Tai. After all, he had just crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, and the young man with the same name and surname as himself was so unbearable. The most important thing at the moment is to get out of poverty as soon as possible and settle down in this time and space.

In modern society, after all, he has worked in the capital for many years, and after returning to his hometown, he became a small boss, and some methods are ways to make money.

In addition to being able to make a good life for himself and his mother, money can also allow him to make a career in this coming troubled world.

Therefore, he decided to participate in this Rugao County Examination, not to gain fame, in fact, he has no ability. But through the exam, you can temporarily alleviate this crisis, and when you pass the exam and become a protégé of the magistrate, you will be afraid and dare not come to yourself and the current trouble. Moreover, when you pass the exam, you can successfully enter the mainstream class of Rugao. The height determines the vision, and with a certain number of contacts, it is not easy to grow hair in the future?

However, it seems that Lei Tai really hates himself and wants to fight with me Sun Yuan, as long as I don't pass the county test.

Although Sun Yuan is very contemptuous of villains like Lei Tai and Mao Cheng. However, tactically, we cannot ignore it, and this kind of manipulation method of Xu officials, concealing and bullying the subordinates, is the most difficult.

If one is not good, maybe it will really be bad in their hands.

It doesn't matter if you pay taxes on five taels of autumn grain, with the ability of Sun Yuan's later generations, it is not difficult to earn it. But Lei Tai said that he wanted to get himself to repair the Huai River, but it was not so easy to deal with.

It turns out that since Zhang Juzheng's Longwan reform in the Ming Dynasty, a whip law has been thoroughly promoted in China, and it is the main form of tax law today.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty's tax system was mainly divided into two types: field taxation and forced labor.

Tian Fu is what later generations called the imperial grain national tax; Conscription refers to the labor activities carried out by the state without compensation, such as building dikes, dredging rivers, building cities, leveling roads, and so on......

Subsequently, the implementation of the conscription system produced many drawbacks. For example, this year, the state wants to requisition people from Jiangsu Province to build the Huaihe River embankment, so many people from all over the province gather in Huai'an, and the food and consumption expenses along the way are astronomical. At the end of the project, the people had to be dismissed with travel expenses, which was another large amount of money. It's not as cost-effective as hiring someone locally.

Moreover, silver was a hard currency, and all the expenses of the imperial court needed to be paid for with this precious metal.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng simply converted the field endowment and forced labor into silver, directly collected the money, paid it into the state treasury, and then arranged it by the state.

Sun Yuan is now just a mustard civilian, and he naturally has to serve as a servant. With the memory in my heart, it seems that I need to pay five dollars a year for forced labor, which is not a big deal.

But the problem is that after the introduction of a whip law, there was no one-size-fits-all approach. It was up to the magistrate to decide whether or not he needed to convert it into cash. For example, if Rugao County wants to build a national project, the local people will go directly to work and pay the money, isn't that an extra move? Moreover, the poor people may not be able to come up with the money.

This time, if Lei Tai really wants to send himself to serve, it is legally reasonable, and he is powerless to resist.

Looking at his thin body and slender arms, Sun Yuan smiled bitterly in his heart. With such a body to serve as a servant, it is estimated that it will not take a few days to die of exhaustion on the construction site.

"It seems that if you don't make the list this time, and if you don't become a protégé of Zhou Zhi County, not only will you not be able to get through the difficulty of beating the errand officer, but I'm afraid that you won't even be able to save your life!"